Listening Quotes

• Has he ever even said he loved you?" "He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Said
  • Loved
  • Telling

• I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

  

  Bill Joy
  • People
  • Remember
  • Stupid

• Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

  

  Angelo Sotira
  • Listening
  • Leadership
  • Have

• A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Music
  • Emotional

• You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I've done is the ultimate childhood goal.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Mother
  • High
  • Journey

• A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

  

  Jason Scott Lee
  • Listening

• Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Real
  • Change
  • Willingness

• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Music
  • Listening

• Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Up
  • She
  • Listening

• Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Why
  • Boy

• When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

  

  Al Feldstein
  • Movie
  • Listening
  • Witch

• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Listening

• It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.

  

  Zanele Muholi
  • Women
  • Issues
  • Has Beens

• The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Experience
  • Beginning
  • Listening

• Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Lonely
  • Solitude

• You can't wait for someone to discover you; you have to just get on and do it. Have confidence that directing is a very suitable job for a woman - with our gift for collaboration, listening, and reading the nuance of things.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Job
  • Reading
  • Confidence

• I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Music
  • Listening

• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Present

• An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Important
  • Women
  • Job

• A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

  

  John Coleman
  • American
  • Listening

• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Listening

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